Question 1

The SA, or Storm Troops, were

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A) the Nazi party militia. 
B) the major threat to the security of the Nazi Party before 1923. 
C) the first type of Kolkhoz. 
D) led by Hermann Goering. 
E) Mussolini's Black Shirts. 
A) the Nazi party militia. 
B) the major threat to the security of the Nazi Party before 1923. 
C) the first type of Kolkhoz. 
D) led by Hermann Goering. 
E) Mussolini's Black Shirts.

Question 2

The events that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means were

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A) his Dachau speech and the two subsequent assassination attempts by the SPD in 1932. 
B) the death of President Hindenburg and Hitler's speech at Hindenburg's funeral. 
C) the Reichstag fire, Mussolini's "Caesar" speech, and Rommel's endorsement. 
D) the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS. 
E) the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag. 
A) his Dachau speech and the two subsequent assassination attempts by the SPD in 1932. 
B) the death of President Hindenburg and Hitler's speech at Hindenburg's funeral. 
C) the Reichstag fire, Mussolini's "Caesar" speech, and Rommel's endorsement. 
D) the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS. 
E) the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag.

Question 3

History's greatest naval invasion occurred on June 6, 1944, when the Allies landed in Normandy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930's in the city of

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A) Berlin. 
B) Nuremberg. 
C) Cologne. 
D) Vienna. 
E) Munich. 
A) Berlin. 
B) Nuremberg. 
C) Cologne. 
D) Vienna. 
E) Munich.

Question 5

Identify the following terms.
-the Blitz

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The Blitz was a sustained bombing campai

Question 6

At the Munich Conference of 1938,

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A) the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland. 
B) the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler. 
C) the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe. 
D) eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided. 
E) Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement. 
A) the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland. 
B) the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler. 
C) the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe. 
D) eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided. 
E) Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement.

Question 7

Among the major results of World War 2 was

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A) the beginning of a major and world-wide decolonization movement. 
B) the restoration of European world hegemony. 
C) the restoration of a multi-power world. 
D) the permanent partition of Germany. 
E) that Japan was forced to join NATO. 
A) the beginning of a major and world-wide decolonization movement. 
B) the restoration of European world hegemony. 
C) the restoration of a multi-power world. 
D) the permanent partition of Germany. 
E) that Japan was forced to join NATO.

Question 8

Identify the following terms.
-five-year plans

Accepted Answer

Five-year plans are comprehensive econom

Question 9

Identify the following terms.
-Einsatzgruppen

Accepted Answer

The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing u

Question 10

Aerial bombing of wartime Japan

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A) occurred only during the last month of the war. 
B) had virtually no effect on Japanese industrial facilities. 
C) included the first use of an atomic bomb. 
D) produced very little destruction of Japanese housing. 
E) spared Tokyo entirely. 
A) occurred only during the last month of the war. 
B) had virtually no effect on Japanese industrial facilities. 
C) included the first use of an atomic bomb. 
D) produced very little destruction of Japanese housing. 
E) spared Tokyo entirely.

Question 11

The greatest tank battle during WW 2 was the Battle of ​

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A) Stalingrad​ 
B) ​El-Alamein 
C) ​Kursk 
D) ​Rome 
E) ​the Bulge 
A) Stalingrad​ 
B) ​El-Alamein 
C) ​Kursk 
D) ​Rome 
E) ​the Bulge

Question 12

Identify the following terms.
-Blitzkrieg

Accepted Answer

Blitzkrieg, a German term meaning "light

Question 13

Compare and contrast the authoritarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union with that of Hitler's Germany. What are the similarities and what are the differences between the two regimes? Was one more totalitarian than the other? Why and how?

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Both Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's

Question 14

The Blitzkrieg was

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A) a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual weakening of an enemy and, finally, surrender. 
B) a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces. 
C) never able to achieve its specific military objectives. 
D) a series of naval attacks that were aimed at blockading enemy ports. 
E) the use of massed artillery fire and poison gas against enemy fortifications. 
A) a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual weakening of an enemy and, finally, surrender. 
B) a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces. 
C) never able to achieve its specific military objectives. 
D) a series of naval attacks that were aimed at blockading enemy ports. 
E) the use of massed artillery fire and poison gas against enemy fortifications.

Question 15

The Aryan racial state

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A) was destined, in Nazi plans, to control Western Europe and Africa. 
B) needed only the passive tolerance of the German population in order to be established. 
C) required the active involvement of the entire German population to achieve its destiny. 
D) disliked mass demonstration unless the emotionalism was minimized. 
E) would make all women warrior-soldiers, thus doubling Aryan military strength. 
A) was destined, in Nazi plans, to control Western Europe and Africa. 
B) needed only the passive tolerance of the German population in order to be established. 
C) required the active involvement of the entire German population to achieve its destiny. 
D) disliked mass demonstration unless the emotionalism was minimized. 
E) would make all women warrior-soldiers, thus doubling Aryan military strength.

Question 16

The increasingly anti-Semitic phase that moved towards violence in Germany was started with​

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A) ​the Nuremberg Laws 
B) ​the Mischling Laws 
C) ​Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 
D) ​partitioning of Poland 
E) ​implementing the blueprints of the Wannsee Convention 
A) ​the Nuremberg Laws 
B) ​the Mischling Laws 
C) ​Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 
D) ​partitioning of Poland 
E) ​implementing the blueprints of the Wannsee Convention

Question 17

On the Eastern Front,

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A) at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000. 
B) in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok. 
C) German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944. 
D) Indian Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. 
E) over ninety percent of Moscow was flattened during the German bombing raids of late 1944. 
A) at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000. 
B) in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok. 
C) German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944. 
D) Indian Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. 
E) over ninety percent of Moscow was flattened during the German bombing raids of late 1944.

Question 18

Identify the following terms.
-Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences

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The Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferenc

Question 19

The Holocaust included all of the following except

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A) an attempt to increase the efficiency of the Einsatzgruppen units by moving mass murder activities to fixed, "death camp" locations. 
B) consuming approximately 90 percent of central and eastern Europe's Jewish population. 
C) the elimination of Gypsies and many others from groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis. 
D) the murder of millions of forced laborers who died of starvation, overwork, or shooting. 
E) the establishment of execution camps in France. 
A) an attempt to increase the efficiency of the Einsatzgruppen units by moving mass murder activities to fixed, "death camp" locations. 
B) consuming approximately 90 percent of central and eastern Europe's Jewish population. 
C) the elimination of Gypsies and many others from groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis. 
D) the murder of millions of forced laborers who died of starvation, overwork, or shooting. 
E) the establishment of execution camps in France.

Question 20

Japan's decision to seize much of Southeast Asia was based primarily on

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A) its contempt for China. 
B) a need to satisfy rampant nationalism. 
C) providing bases for Pacific dominance. 
D) the need to secure vital natural resources. 
E) Tojo's meglamania. 
A) its contempt for China. 
B) a need to satisfy rampant nationalism. 
C) providing bases for Pacific dominance. 
D) the need to secure vital natural resources. 
E) Tojo's meglamania.

Exam 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2

The SA, or Storm Troops, were

The events that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means were

History's greatest naval invasion occurred on June 6, 1944, when the Allies landed in Normandy.

To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930's in the city of

Identify the following terms. -the Blitz

At the Munich Conference of 1938,

Among the major results of World War 2 was

Identify the following terms. -five-year plans

Identify the following terms. -Einsatzgruppen

Aerial bombing of wartime Japan

The greatest tank battle during WW 2 was the Battle of ​

Identify the following terms. -Blitzkrieg

Compare and contrast the authoritarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union with that of Hitler's Germany. What are the similarities and what are the differences between the two regimes? Was one more totalitarian than the other? Why and how?

The Blitzkrieg was

The Aryan racial state

The increasingly anti-Semitic phase that moved towards violence in Germany was started with​

On the Eastern Front,

Identify the following terms. -Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences

The Holocaust included all of the following except

Japan's decision to seize much of Southeast Asia was based primarily on

Early Humans and the First Civilizations

Ancient India

China in Antiquity

The Civilization of the Greeks

The First World Civilizations: Rome, China, and the Emergence of the Silk Road

The Americas

Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam

Early Civilizations in Africa

The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia

The Flowering of Traditional China

The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

The Making of Europe

The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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The greatest tank battle during WW 2 was the Battle of

The increasingly anti-Semitic phase that moved towards violence in Germany was started with